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Sr. Solutions Design Engineer

Logistics at full potential

Within this dynamic and international environment, you will be responsible for the creation of efficient, effective, and innovative solutions for new customers. This includes cost and price calculations for the solution. The focus is on offering warehousing and transport solutions.

You will work closely with Business Development Managers and other teams and stakeholders to convince potential customers GXO being the right partner. This involves strategizing sales approaches, outlining solutions, and convincingly presenting them to potential customers.

You will join our Solutions Design team here in our Eindhoven Head Quarters and focus on solutions for the Belgium and Netherlands market.

What you do on a typical day as a Solutions Engineer

• Create effective and efficient solutions including automation and innovation concepts for potential new customers or existing operations.
• Analyze and understand customer needs and requirement in their supply chain and translating that into warehousing concepts, including sustainability concepts.
• Create and deliver complete and correct cost models including P&L analyses for the created solutions.
• Work with all departments to create customer solutions to gain and retain new customer revenues.
• Create solution overviews and presentation material, (e.g. 3D drawings of the solution) to support the offering process to new customers. Convince customers via solution presentation, of GXO being the right partner.
• Design solutions that include layout plans, investment plans, productivity calculations, direct and indirect labor, implementation costs etc.
• Support during implementation processes for example by acting as the solution gatekeeper.

What you need to succeed at GXO as a Solutions Engineer

• 5 years' experience in Solutions Design or Engineering role, in a logistics related environment.
• Bachelor/master's degree, preferably in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Logistics or equivalent.
• Experience with Business Development tender processes.
• Key competencies: be proactive, communicative, work structured and creative. Be passionate about innovations and new concepts, ability to present and convince people about your solution.
• Strong excel knowledge, preferably CAD and Autodesk skills.
• Fluent in English, Dutch out be advantageous.

What we offer you

• Competitive salary, bonus, and company car.
• GXO University, where growth is encouraged.
• Open to change and welcome fresh ideas.
• Working within an established and enthusiastic team.
• Hybrid working, 2 days home, 3 days in office or on location.

Unlock the potential of your future!

Your work environment

Working at GXO Logistics means working in a dynamic and international organization. A fascinating environment with plenty of room for personal input and development. Employees at GXO Logistics are in charge of their own success. Whatever your position at GXO Logistics, you will face new challenges every day, which will enable you to develop optimally. We support you in your development, so that you can contribute to the entrepreneurship of our organisation. GXO Logistics offers advanced supply chain solutions for the world's most successful companies in many industries, like e-commerce, food & retail and industrial multinationals. In the BeNe region (The Netherlands and Belgium) GXO BeNe operates from +30 different locations with its headquarters in Eindhoven (NL).

For more information, please contact Debby van Agtmaal - Bastiaansen, Corporate Recruiter. She can be reached via email at